This one popped out at me from a stack at the antique shop today. Serendipity. It's so perfect, isn't it? The juliette braids in the hair, the mirrored attitudes, the turned heads, the legs in the background. A happy perfection of composition.

I love this one and have been saving it for the right part of the season. I love the hu-u-uge snowdrift that reminds me of how it "used to snow". I love the jacket, the smile, the button nose...the whole bit.

This photo was actually "found" among my family photos, so I'd put it under "family", except that I have no idea who this is, who took the picture, or what the circumstances. It's a mystery!
But what a marvelous photo..and what a marvelous mystery!

Today's found photo

I love to browse antique markets, but often can't afford to buy anything. So it is always with an easter-egg-hunt sense of intrigue that I come upon the ubiquitous basket of vintage "found photos". At a quarter or two per photo, I can always afford to dip my hand into these treasure troves from the lives of others. Some people find it morbid, I suppose, but I love the mystery, the intrigue, the densely-scribbled pages of the book that was this or that unknown life.

This one, I love. Those outfits! And on the deck of a ship! It just doesn't get any better. How I covet those shoes (not that they would have fit on my size 11 tall-girl-feet)! The pearls! The cloche hats! And, oh, best of all...the gentleman in the middle. How can I choose what I love best about his outfit? I guess I'll have to go with the striped socks. Oh, how I love that man for wearing those striped socks with his knickers!! And look at his David Niven moustache!! Beautious.
Oh, P.S., Who do you suppose was torn out of the right side of this photo?? Intrigue, to boot!